Jacksonville man charged in girlfriend's shooting and her father's death

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A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder and attempted murder in the shooting of his girlfriend and death of her father.

Toddrick Nelson Lee is accused of killing Henry Underwood following an argument at the Eden’s Edge apartments were Underwood lived with his family.

Lee was the boyfriend of Underwood’s 22-year-old daughter, who lived at the apartment with the two children she had with Lee, said Chief Chris Butler of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

When police arrived at the apartment they found Underwood shot dead inside. Butler said Lee took his girlfriend, who had also been shot, to the hospital and initially told police someone had broken in and shot the victims.

Police later suspected Lee and arrested him on charges of murder and attempted murder. The 22-year-old victim, whose name was not released by investigators, is in critical but stable condition, Butler said Wednesday.

Lee was jailed shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday, according to jail records. Lee has lived in Jacksonville for eight years, according to the records.

This week, three men have been charged with murder in separate foul play cases that happened in a weekend of violence that left five people dead. Those involved a double homicide and critical wounding of a third victim in a Lane Avenue apartment and a second case police said was a failed murder-suicide. An arrest has also been made in a case involving a 31-year-old man killed after he was hit in the head with a bat.

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